Amazon announced Wednesday that it has ordered full seasons of five pilots, including a Philip K. Dick adaptation, a magazine show inspired by one of the nation's most esteemed publications and two children's programs.

If you watched the Golden Globes last month, you might remember co-host Amy Poehler joking that Wes Anderson, a filmmaker known for his meticulous, fanciful style, had arrived at the ceremony on "a bike made of antique tuba parts." The camera caught...

The global love affair with American popular culture was on full display – albeit in vastly different ways – in the fall 2015 collections of Opening Ceremony and Tommy Hilfiger presented Sunday night and Monday morning respectively....

On Tuesday, Netflix released the first teaser trailer for its upcoming eight-episode revival of the cult indie comedy "Wet Hot American Summer," officially confirming the participation of virtually the entire cast of the original movie.
On Wednesday,...

These scenes began flashing through my mind just as the Screen Actors Guild Awards began announcing nominations for performance by a cast in a motion picture:
"Birdman" — actors in constricted spaces using dressing rooms and winding corridors to stage an intimate ballet; bodies and egos ever in motion, bumping, bruising, crashing, burning.
"Whiplash"— a war zone, the interplay between professor and prodigy scorching, the afterburn lingering; solitude even for the solitary ceasing to exist....

She played Ben Affleck's wife in the Academy Award-winning film "Argo" and the object of Zac Efron's affection in the film adaptation of "The Lucky One." But Taylor Schilling did not find fame until she put on an orange prison jumpsuit to star in the Netflix hit series "Orange Is the New Black." Her character, Piper Chapman, is educated, affluent and unpredictable.
Schilling, 30, is up for a Golden Globe on Sunday, nominated as a lead actress in a TV comedy series (her second consecutive Golden Globe...

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Survivor The unscripted series presents its 29th season's finale in a two-hour presentation followed by the reunion show. 8 and 10 p.m. CBS
Hell's Kitchen The season finale also marks the cooking competition series' 200th episode. 8 p.m. Fox
SoCal Connected In this new episode, Val...

All that follows the first several paragraphs of this review will constitute an endorsement, so I encourage you to keep reading past the negative opening remarks, as I would encourage you to keep watching "Mozart in the Jungle," whose first season begins Tuesday on Amazon, past its so-so, sometimes off-putting pilot. It gets good thereafter — very good.
The 10-episode series, which comes from executive producers Roman Coppola, Jason Schwartzman and Alex Timbers — who wrote the pilot, as well...

Can you hear the hair?
On billboards and bus ads across Los Angeles, the curly locks of Gustavo Dudamel often seem to be in motion as the conductor strikes a pose of musical ecstasy.
In "Mozart in the Jungle," Amazon's new comedy series set in the classical music world, "Hear the Hair" is a cringe-worthy promotional campaign behind Rodrigo, the new music director of a fictional New York orchestra.
Like Gustavo, the smoldering Rodrigo, played by actor Gael García Bernal, hails from Latin America,...

As a filmgoer, do you require an admirable, likable protagonist? If you're in league with a large percentage of the populace, the answer is simple: yes. Life's too short to spend it in abrasive company, with characters who test your sympathy or make you examine your own worst impulses in a revealing light.
But think for a minute what would be lost if the answer really was a yes, every time. You'd be deprived, for starters, of Philip Lewis Friedman, the bottomless pit of narcissism played by Jason...